Town Ford in Wenatchee is holding another in their series of seminars. This one will be on fall salmon and steelhead fishing techniques. The seminar will take place at the Town Ford dealership on Wednesday, September 22nd, beginning at 6 p.m. A featured speaker will be Shane Magnuson of Upper Columbia Guide Services. He will touch on fall salmon fishing on the Hanford Reach and Vernita. He is actively fishing this area of the river, and has been for years. He will also be talking about fishing on the upper Columbia River and share the details of his bobber and jig fishing methods. The other speaker at the seminar will be Brian Nielson, of BJ’s Guide Service. Nielson and I have a couple of fishing trips planned for this fall, and I talked him into coming to the seminar. Here’s why, he has been fishing the Klickitat and Grande Ronde rivers for steelhead since 1983, and has been featured on the Columbia Country television show. Nielson has fine-tuned techniques that take fish in all conditions pulling plugs. He will show in detail how he fishes plugs and baited plugs. What anglers learn from Nielson can be applied to the main stem Columbia and the tributaries for steelhead this season. You can learn more about Nielson by logging onto his web site at
www.bjguide.com.